`Qe2` Sets Record Despite Walkout

October 3, 1986|United Press International

NEW YORK -- With the help of passengers and staffers, the British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 set a world record for unloading and loading -- despite the longshoremen`s strike -- the Cunard line reported Thursday.

The giant liner, arriving in Manhattan after a voyage from Southampton, England, tied up at its berth on the Hudson River late Wednesday afternoon and was ready to cast off lines five hours and 38 minutes later.

The time was nine minutes faster than its Guinness Book of World Records mark of five hours and 47 minutes, set in Nov. 21, 1983, a Cunard spokeswoman said.